Mauritania
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Please pray for
the estimated 150,000 children and people of Mauritania who are held captive in
a centuries-old, traditionally-accepted practice of chattel slavery, where
adult slaves and their children are the property of their masters. Mauritania takes
the dubious honor of first place in a new slavery index that ranks countries
according to the occurrence of slavery, child marriage, and trafficking. http://tinyurl.com/l6ek7n9
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Pray this
culturally-embedded tradition of using, buying, selling, renting out, and
giving slaves away as gifts will cease. Pray the laws abolishing slavery and
trafficking will be upheld and enforced. Pray for freedom and justice for all
children and adults enslaved in this country.
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Please keep in
prayer those who work to abolish slavery in Mauritania. Pray for their safety
as many human rights defenders and their supporters have been arrested by police.
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Keep in prayer
18-year-old Noura Mint Aheimed who escaped from slavery after suffering 14
years of exploitation, maltreatment, and lack education allegedly at the hands
of her masters. Pray for justice for this brave young woman who has become a
symbol for the anti-slavery movement in Mauritania.
Philippines
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Keep close in
prayer the children and people of the Philippines as they cope with the
devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan on November 8, 2013. Pray for the
estimated 9.5 million people affected by this super-typhoon that hit the
central part of the Philippines. Haiyan was one of the most powerful typhoons in
recorded history. http://tinyurl.com/klw4x5z http://tinyurl.com/kla6xnk http://tinyurl.com/pkeyk5f http://tinyurl.com/q5wsr2c
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Pray for the
estimated 660,000 people who have been displaced and lack access to food, clean
water, or medical care. Pray humanitarian aid will reach everyone in great
need, especially the most vulnerable. Pray for the 2.5 million people in need
of food because of this disaster.
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Pray for those in
remote areas who’ve been affected by Typhoon Haiyan. Please pray for survivors
in communities like Tacloban (the coastal capital of Leyte province) where 10,000
are feared dead; Guiuan a city of 40,000 people that was almost totally devastated;
Basey (a seaside town in Samar province) where 2,000 people are missing; and for
survivors in the hundreds of other towns and villages that were in Haiyan’s
path.
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Please pray
communications, highways, airports, power lines, and other infrastructure can
be repaired or restored quickly to allow aid to reach devastated communities. Pray
for the safe transport of supplies and personnel in areas where looters have
attacked trucks of food and relief supplies. Pray the supplies reach everyone
in need and aren’t siphoned off by corrupt officials.
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Give thanks to God
for the international support flowing into the Philippines from more than 20 other
countries.
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Pray for children
and families grieving the loss of loved ones, friends, homes, and communities. Whole
towns have been reduced to rubble by Haiyan’s high winds, drenching rains, and
massive storm surges. Please pray God’s peace will sustain those who are
grieving and heal the visible and invisible wounds from this trauma.
United States
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Please keep close
in prayer a 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by Gary*, an
18-year-old young man with the emotional maturity of a much younger boy. Pray
for her physical and emotional healing. Pray for her parents as they try to
help their daughter and protect her from any further abuse.
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Pray God will
guide Gary as he deals with the consequences of his actions. He was arrested
for having sex with this 13-year-old girl and will now carry the “registered sex
offender” status with him for the rest of his life. Pray for Gary’s adoptive
parents who are beside themselves with grief and disappointment.
Faces of Children
- Keep Faces of Children prayer partner Karen Lang close in prayer as she recovers from dental surgery to remove an infection. Please pray for healing and comfort for this faithful intercessor.
- Give thanks to God for Sandy’s successful foot surgery. Pray this wife of Faces of Children intercessor Jim Alsup will experience God’s healing touch as she recovers from a difficult surgery. Pray for her healing and comfort, as well.
*Name changed for confidentiality and/or protection.
